It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTherefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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